Greetings of the season

This sign is on Fifth Avenue by Eagle Provisions. The words are in the direction of Park Slope, where there are more restaurants and shops up ahead.

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Reindeer on the door

They call it an Italian restaurant, but the menu is heavy on the burritos and quesadillas. They’ll take any customers, I think. For reindeer, they’ve gone the non-Rudolph route. What do you think? Donner and Blitzen?

 

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Baked in Brooklyn

From the owners of Aladdin Bakery comes a bakery shop (5th Avenue and 26th Street). For sale there are bread and baked goods, (mmmm… cinnamon rolls), sandwiches, and coffee. There is seating for a small number of people. It’s fun to look out the window because more than half the people who go by are surprised that a new place, somewhere they would want to go, has opened on this strip. (Time Warner Cable is up the street.)

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Rain at Greenwood Park

The rain moved down Seventh Avenue from Park Slope, but tables got pushed under umbrellas and young families mingled with hipsters and others at Greenwood Park. The beer garden seems to be working, and the food’s not bad, either.

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Take-out this summer

China One is a very popular name for Chinese restaurants, FYI. But our topic today is eating during a heatwave. Cooking is not an option, but if people at your house insist on eating, take-out is an obvious choice. Chinese food is cheap and accessible. Taste is personal; there’s also a pizza place across the street.

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Neon psychic

Here’s more proof that Fifth Avenue in the teens and 20’s is moving on up: neon signs, even for small small operations like this. This picture could be better, but I had to move quickly. Psychics have a way of suddenly appearing if you linger by their sign too long: “May I offer you a reading today?”

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The bar @ Habana Tapas

A newish addition to the bars and restaurants on Fifth Avenue in the 20’s is Habana Tapas. Good drinks and good guacamole and homemade plantain chips. I never made it to the main menu.

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Food like Grandma’s

If your Grandma is a so-so Czech or Slovak cook, that is. If you eat at Milan’s Restaurant on a Sunday, you may not need to eat again until Thursday. But if you’re looking for a homey kind of restaurant that keeps a Valentine on the window when the day is past, then by all means have a trek to 710 Fifth Avenue (22nd St.).

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The bottlecap is too small

Stegmaier is the cheapie beer at Korzo on Fifth Avenue. There’s not enough room on the bottlecap for what I think it should say (not to mention the challenge of illustrating it): “No thanks for the draft lite, make mine Octoberfest.”

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El Continental is a groovin restaurante

It’s BYOB and your seventies fantasies, too. The typeface makes me want to show-off my disco moves and  platform shoes. The pupusas are supposed to be outstanding.

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